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Karbosguide.com Software Tip 14

Windows Autotexts

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It is terribly impractical to have to repeat the same operations over and over again Some

programs (like Word) gives lots of options for customizing their execution with macros,

autotexts, and keyboard shortcuts You can read about that in "Word 97 short course," where

I have given much emphasis on these options

But other - many other- Windows programs do not offer these macro etc options That is the

case with a program like Composer, which I use to write my home pages There is no

question that the program is excellent for writing home pages But its functionality is quite primitive There are hardly any keyboard shortcuts, and no macros Many Windows programs are designed like this, and it can really be quite trying to fight your way through a larger assignment

You can get help I am talking about two programs, which can spruce up any Windows

program I can equip Composer with just the same autotexts and keyboard shortcuts, which I enjoy so much in Word:

● ShortKeys 98

● MacroExpress 98

Both programs require some getting used to, but then they really work Unfortunately only

for 30 days, unless you pay for them Let me show you some examples of how I use them First the simplest of the programs:

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Every time I need to write the word Windows, I just press w When I hit the space bar after the w, the abbreviation is replaced immediately and automatically with "Windows" Likewise:

● h gives the text home pages,

● ht give gives the text Click & Learn: http://www.mkdata.dk/english

● etc

You just have to get used to the program, since it sometimes may surprise you But that is soon corrected, and it really saves you time That is certainly worth its $20 - register it right away!

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The FAX program - what happened in Windows 98?

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Windows FAX is the program which enables you to send fax using your modem That is a

smart item, since fax by modem can appear much more appealing to the receiver than fax from a machine Machine fax has to be scanned first, and that results in a loss of quality

The FAX function was quite simple to install in Windows 95, but for some reason that program has been omitted in Windows 98 Well it is not really gone, but you have to look hard for it Then you have to install it yourself Peculiar, but here is how:

On the Windows 98 CD-ROM you need to enter the folder \WIN98\TOOLS\OLDWIN95

\MESSAGE There you find the Awfax program, and you need to click on that:

After you have accepted the license agreement, you can now install Microsoft Fax:

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Now follows the installation:

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When you have written a document in your word processor, you can print that to the fax instead of your regular printer I hope this works (my own ISDN modem can not work with fax)

One question remains: Why all these capers to hide the program so far out of the way in Windows 98? God's ways are unfathomable!

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Tweak UI

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TWEAK UI, which is found on the 98 CD, is a program to customize the user interface It is included in the collection of small programs, which is known as "Power toys." In Windows 98 these programs have been included in the CD-ROM, but they are still well hidden First look

at the installation here

You need to find an installation file named tweakui.inf Right click on that and select Install:

Then the program will be installed quickly, and now you can find it in the Control Panel:

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Here you can change a lot of parameters concerning the behavior of the user interface:

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Single click in Explorer

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I use the single click system in Explorer, as you can see in some of the screen dumps

This causes the folder names to be underlined, which means that they work as links on a home page One click opens them Try that

To activate it you need to select View -> Folder Options in Explorer

On the General tab select:

Then click Settings , and select:

Click OK and it works You just have to get used to the new interface You just select objects

by letting the mouse cursor rest on them - without clicking Give it a chance!

Moreover you can adjust the "reaction time," that is the time between touching an object and selecting it You need to find the program TWEAK UI, which is on the 98 CD There you can adjust "menu speed" - increase it It causes the selection to appear faster Now there is no excuse for the impatient souls, who might think that the pointing method is too slow

compared to the traditional click Read later about TWEAK UI

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Folders with names in capital letters

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A (small) novelty in Windows 98 is that you can use capital letters in folder names Notice the second to last folder in the picture below:

Windows 95 did not allow that, but now it is acceptable

Personally I should prefer, that only smallcaps were allowed both in files and folders names

It would make things a lot easier

You should also remember that on many web-servers (Unix/Linux-based) there is a

difference between lower cases and capitals The file Index.htm and the file index.htm are not the same Therefore it is good only to use lower cases, both in file and folder naming If you mix the cases it can be difficult to remember whichyou have used

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Change the Windows opening screen

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When you turn your PC on you see a screen like this:

Since it a simple piece of bit map graphics, you can alter this image The file is named C:

\Logo.sys, which means it is in the root directory Open it in a graphics program, and alter it

Just beware that this picture is in a special format, that is 320 X 400 pixels When shown, it

is scaled up to double width like 640 X 400 You must consider that when you modify the picture - it will be distorted when shown Here you see the picture during editing:

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If you use Windows 98, you have to create the file Logo.sys yourself and place it in the root directory It will work then as well

In the same manner you can change the closing picture It is named C:\Windows\Logow.sys You can clearly see the peculiar tall format:

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Color changes in the title bar

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A new detail in the user interface is that you can select different colors for different screen window portions Select Display Properties -> Appearance Select Menu and color 1, then select Active Window and color 2 as shown below:

That gives quite a neat effect

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Choose your own start page

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When you open your browser, some kind of home page is automatically written in That is true regardless of which browser you use It is not quite unimportant which home page you choose, and actually you have four options:

● A blank page

● A home page saved in your PC

● Some fixed page from the net

● The browsers default page

I will highly recommend that you experiment with these options The blank page is the

easiest way out The browser starts with a blank page and is ready immediately A local

home page is a good option You make your own home page with the links you use most

frequently Then the browser will open that as your starting page I have such a local home page myself, but it is on my desktop as is described elsewhere here

The fixed start page from the net can be an exciting enterprise There are really many who

like for you to use their web site as start page That gives many visits to their page, which in

turn signals success and might result in earnings through advertisements

Finally you can choose to let the browser select a start page - but that is least desirable

solution Neither Microsoft's nor Netscape's start pages are particularly exciting Make a better choice yourself!

How do you do this? Well, in Internet Explorer you need to select View -> Internet Options

The rest is easy:

Above the easiest is to browse to the page you want as your start page and then click on the

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button Use Current In Netscape Navigator you similarly select Edit, Preferences :

Here it is similarly easy to browse to the start page and then click on the button Use Current Page

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Fixed folder for downloading in Internet Explorer

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When you are in the Internet with Internet Explorer and look at a file, which is not a home page, you have the option to download the file But in which folder does it end up? Maybe you have noticed that it appears to be random Or maybe you have discovered that it always

saves in the last folder you downloaded to You see Windows saves that information

I want Internet Explorer to always suggest C:\temp for saving downloads, since I always use that folder for this purpose So how do I make the Internet Explorer program accept that? Unfortunately I need to go to the registry database That is just a small thing, and here I will show you how:

Open a new text document in Notepad, or whatever program you use for that kind of thing Then write these lines, precisely as you see them here (It is easier to copy them from here, then you will get no errors):

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]

"Download Directory"="C:\\temp"

Here you see it:

Now save the file, for example on the desktop It MUST have the suffix REG I call it

ie40download.reg The moment you rename the suffix, the file will be included in the registry

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database, as you can see from the icon:

Now you just have to double click on the file to run it Confirm with OK twice, then everything

is in its place In the future the download folder will be C:\temp (or whatever you wrote in the file) This remains true until you save in another folder Then you have to run the file again to re-establish C:\temp as the default folder

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Use the desktop

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If you collect all your favorite Internet addresses in an HTML document, you can select that

as background Start by turning Active Desktop on:

Now create your HTML document Save it in the folder C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper:

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Then select:

Here you need to click on the Background tab and identify your HTML document:

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Now it works Here is how the desktop looks now You see the 6 links on the right:

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About file types

- showing only some of them!

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By default Explorer does not show the suffix to the name for registered file types However you can add that you always want to see the suffix for certain types of files:

In Explorer select View → Folder Options and select the tab File Types Then find the file type in the long list Here I find the MiDi files, where I always want to see their suffix:

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Then click twice on OK From now on this file type will always be identified including the suffix

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Karbosguide.com Software Tip 3b

About temporary files - get rid of them (II)

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Here is another tip to cleaning up Windows' temporary files Thank you to Mr Frank Fallon of Australia, who has

a site with similar Windows tips This works with Windows 98 and Me:

To clean up temporary files, you use these command lines:

DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\FF*.TMP > NUL

DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\COOKIE* > NUL

DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\"Temporary Internet Files"\*.*

MD C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

I prefer to place them in a batch file I have the file clean.bat placed on my desktop on my Windows 98-based

PC It holds the mentioned lines, and is easy to execute, being placed at the desktop:

When I run the batchfile, the commands are executed one by by one:

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It really cleans up - very fast and very efficiently

Mr Fallon also recommended a handy temp cleaner It is a little program which may take care of these problems Download it here, if you want to test it

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Karbosguide.com Software Tip 3a

About temporary files - get rid of them (I)

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Windows continuously creates temporary files They are temporary files, which really need to be deleted However, they are never deleted automatically - certainly not when Windows crashes, as it sometimes does They are in the folder C:\Windows\Temp You ought to check it routinely:

It is to your advantage to delete these temporary files They just take up space and there can be hundreds

of them

However, the problem is that you may not be able to delete all temporary files while Windows is running - some of them may be active Therefore I recommend this simple method: put a line in your Autoexec.bat! You can find the file Autoexec.Bat (Autoexec) through Start -> Find Right click on it and choose edit Then type the line shown below and save the file:

echo Y | del c:\windows\temp\*.*

This will cause all temporary files to be deleted at any start-up The echo command adds a "Y" into the del command, so you do not need to confirm with a "Y" to execute the delete

You may also want to delete the subdirectories using this command:

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Windows also has tools for cleaning the harddisk However I still recommend the following addition to the Autoexec.bat This only works in Windows 98, since Windows Me has no Autoexec.bat

Autoexec.bat is a text file, and it has to be to be edited If you worked with your PC ten years ago, you would not ask what Autoexec.bat is We used it all the time to tweak more free memory out of the start-

To open Autoexec.bat, you find Windows Explorer and highlight C:\ (the root directory) in the left frame

In the right frame you find Autoexec.bat Highlight it and make a rightclick on it Then choose edit, and it

is opened for you in Notepad

Make your changes and save the file, which then works after re-boot

Using Autoexec.bat is smart since it cleans up every time you boot the pc The first line to add:

deltree /y C:\Windows\temp\*.*

This line deletes all the temporary Internet files including the subdirectories, which all the time is created

in C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files:

deltree /y C:\Windows\TEMPOR~1\*.*

Finally add

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\deltree /y C:\Windows\cookies\*.*

This line clears out the cookies, which my browser collects all the time The PC has to reboot for the

Autoexec.bat to work You can monitor the deletion on screen during the start up (hit [pause] key to freeze the screen)

The first line empties the browsers cache - a good thing The second line cleans up after Windows in

general The third line clears out the cookies, which the browser collects all the time

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All use is on your own responsability - you may experience some problems using this tip, so please test it The next tip shows another option Also read more about deleting these files in Tip 18

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Tiêu đề	Tips for Windows
Tác giả	Michael B. Karbo
Trường học	Karbosguide.com
Chuyên ngành	Software Tips
Thể loại	Bài viết
Năm xuất bản	2004

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